Summary
Elmer Lastdrager is a research engineer with 11 years of experience exploring the future of the Internet at SIDN Labs, focusing on emerging technologies such as quantum-resilient infrastructure and privacy-preserving systems. He holds a PhD (2018) on phishing and has a strong background in usable security, human factors, networks, distributed systems and data analytics, applied extensively to IoT security. In addition to his research role he advises Fraudehelpdesk and consults technically at Keravnos, bridging academic insights with practical incident response and consultancy. Colleagues know him for translating complex security research into actionable guidance and prototypes rather than purely theoretical work. Based in Nijmegen, he combines rigorous empirical methods with a pragmatic focus on deployable, user-centered defenses for real-world Internet threats.
11 years of coding experience